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Great Shatranj

This is a rules file for Zillions of Games, a Windows program that will let you play any puzzle or strategy board game you can feed it the rules to. With Zillions-of-Games installed, this rules file will let you play this game against your computer.

Great Shatranj

Game by Joe Joyce, 2006

zrf by Christine See here for full info on game

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/great-shatranj

 

Setup

Set up of pieces are shown in above screenshots

Pieces

Pieces are typical Shatranj like pieces

Rules

Normal rules in chess like games.

PLEASE NOTE This release of Great Shatranj has 2 zrf files, Great Shatranj and Great Shatranj-a.

'Great Shatranj' Variant 1 plays with pawn promotion to General.   

Variant 2 plays with pawn promotion to Jumping-General.

'Great Shatranj-a' Pawn promotion is to a captured piece only.

Notes

I did notice this here on the game page

https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/great-shatranj

where Joe says  'Several people have suggested that the pawns get an initial double step.'

Joe and I realeased 'The Shortrange Project' which has games nearly exactly like this game with the pawn double step.

Difference is instead of the 'General', which one square all directions, we have a piece that slides 1-2 squares on the queen lines.

Please see here 

https://www.chessvariants.com/ideas/shortrange-project


Download Instructions

Instructions on downloading this Zillions file:

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By Christine Bagley-Jones.

Last revised by Christine Bagley-Jones.


Web page created: 2021-04-03. Web page last updated: 2021-04-08

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